The rise of the prince

Chapter 170 Verification of speculation
"I just want revenge." Li Ye took Yue'er's tea, he didn't really want to get involved with the emperor.

It is extremely dangerous to be accompanied by a king like a tiger, especially a strong and centralized emperor like Jing Chao, who is old and frail.

Li Ye does not discriminate against the elderly, but just thinks rationally. The growth of age will slow down the metabolism of the elderly, slow down the reaction, and make the thinking powerless, so it is easy to get confused.

It doesn't matter if ordinary old people are confused, everyone can be considerate and excusable.

But the emperor is not joking if he is confused.
There are many examples of this kind, such as Liu Bang, Cao Cao, Sun Quan, and Li Shimin. In their later years, they are not as young as they are young, irritable, suspicious, causing blood to flow, and the family and country are uneasy.

Therefore, he doesn't want to deal with the emperor, nor does he want to rely on the emperor to protect himself. All he needs is a military supervisor!
This part was early in his master plan.He has already made an agreement with Duke De, and after the year, Duke De will make a statement for him, and exchange black powder with the emperor for part of the power of the Military Weapons Supervision, so that he can freely use steel and make weapons by himself without being coerced by the Yantie Division. You can protect the entire palace by yourself.

So I had a plan in my heart, and I had a purpose and direction in my speech. I made things clear, and at the same time let the emperor alienate him: "Su Huan, the son of the prefect of Ansu Prefecture in Suzhou, Ding Yi, a great merchant in Suzhou, at the Meiyuan Poetry Conference It messed with me, so I wanted to get revenge, so let people stare at them."

As Li Ye spoke, he glanced at the opposite emperor. His expression was calm, and it didn't seem surprising. This made Li Ye a little puzzled. Could it be that he knew about the Meiyuan Poetry Club?

"How are you going to take revenge?" asked the emperor.

"It's nothing, I'm going to break their dog legs." Li Ye replied truthfully, if it wasn't for the strange behavior of the whole group to continue to observe, he was going to do it from the beginning.

Those words made everyone around them tense up, and they didn't dare to breathe.

The emperor just nodded slightly and was not angry. He seemed to agree with this approach: "What happened later."

Li Ye was slightly surprised, he wanted to provoke the emperor a little bit, and let him scold him a few words so that he wouldn't be able to talk for a day, after all, saving his life by himself would not be a big deal, and then just leave him angry.

I didn't expect that the emperor was really cruel. If he was asked to deal with Su Huan and Ding Yi, and insult the royal descendants, he might be killed directly.

"Later I found out that they acted strangely. They actually bought a lot of cloth in the capital a few years ago." Li Ye just wanted to drink tea, but thought that drinking tea would be bad for external injuries, so he asked Yue'er to change him to a cup of hot water.

The emperor frowned: "What's wrong with buying cloth?"

"This question..." Li Ye just wanted to subconsciously want to be frivolous and mocking, but suddenly realized that this is the emperor, so he held back his words.

Seeing the emperor's complexion was not good, Fu'an was sweating profusely, stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, Suzhou is a big cloth-producing state in this dynasty, and there are many cloth merchants. Many cloths in Beijing are shipped from Suzhou. The old tribute cloth in the palace And most of them are."

"That's right, that's right, hehe, when Shi Zichu mentioned it to his subordinates, the subordinates didn't think of it for a moment, hahaha" Ji Chunsheng interrupted quickly, Fu'an was trying to smooth things over for the emperor, and Ji Chunsheng was obviously doing it for Li Ye.

The emperor didn't pursue anything further: "Go on."

"Later on the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month, Su Huan brought several carts of goods and hurried back home, saying that a boat was coming from Suzhou, but he couldn't recognize the characters for 'Su' and 'Fen', so he got on the wrong boat. The ship was not from the Su family, and the officials of the city ship department worked hard to inspect several trucks all morning, but it turned out that Su Huan made a mistake and was ridiculed by the people around him, and Mr. Su was scolded and cried by the officials of the city ship department It's gone." When Li Ye said this, everyone in the room was amused, and the emperor rarely showed a smile.

"This Su Huan is really a joker." Eunuch Fu'an covered his mouth and said.

Li Ye went on to say: "As a result, they left in a hurry on the 29th of the twelfth lunar month." He stopped at this point.

"And then?" After a while, the emperor asked impatiently.

"So I think they're suspicious."

"Suspicious?" The emperor frowned again.

Ji Chun was afraid that the prince would say something surprising again, so he hurriedly explained: "Your Majesty, according to the time calculation, if we set off from the capital on the 29th, it would take the second day of junior high school, that is, to return home today, so they would have to celebrate the New Year on board. At first, if the prince hadn't reminded him This subordinate, this subordinate can't make a detour for a while, this pedestrian would rather spend the New Year on the river and leave Beijing in a hurry, so it's really suspicious."

Only then did the emperor suddenly realize that this kind of question seemed simple, but the chosen date made many people easily fall into a misunderstanding, that is, leaving Beijing on 29 is equivalent to rushing back to celebrate the New Year.

Everyone also came to their senses, then nodded and discussed in low voices, Mr. Fu'an said in succession, "Your Majesty is really smart."

"But what does this have to do with the assassin?" the emperor asked again.

Li Ye glanced at He Zhao who was standing behind with a dark face: "Don't you think it's strange that the Ansu Mansion's one-hundred-armed army entered the capital? Mr. He has been the governor of the Kaiyuan Mansion for so many years, and he is a capable person. He managed the Kaiyuan Mansion in an orderly manner, would he make a mistake in the city gate inspection? Besides, today the emperor and grandson are patrolling the city, he should be more cautious."

He Zhao glanced at him in surprise. He didn't expect Li Xingzhou to speak for him. When he saw him looking over, he quickly averted his gaze and looked at the ceiling with a look of indifference.

"But the thief has not only a saber in his hand, but also a crossbow!" The emperor became angry when he mentioned this, and the veins on his forehead bulged.

"That's right, the question is where did these things come from." Li Ye said, "So I thought of what Su Huan did at the Shibo Department that day."

Everyone frowned, and He Zhao interjected: "There is nothing wrong with it except being stupid." The emperor nodded accordingly.

"It's too inappropriate." Li Ye said: "Think about it carefully, if you ignore Su Huan's clumsy behavior, he has passed several inspections."

Everyone frowned and thought, but this time it was Di Zhi who was the closest to the door and reacted first: "My son, I understand, he only passed one inspection!"

Although his words were not loud, and because of his status, he was standing at the outermost position in the house, but when he opened his mouth, it was like a thunderbolt, and it exploded in everyone's minds. .

Thinking about it carefully, yes, he only passed the inspection once!

The emperor also reacted, and immediately clenched his fists, his face very ugly.

"I happened to think of this when I was patrolling the city that day, and found that if their pedestrians wanted to bring things into the capital, they could just wrap them in a large amount of cloth and they would be able to bring them in. Although Su Huan made it ridiculous, he really only passed one inspection. "Li Ye said as he took a sip of the hot water that Yue'er had poured for him.

"So I became alert all of a sudden, if they brought any dangerous things into the city, it would be a catastrophe. Just then He Qian called me from the side of the road, and after looking over, I saw two soldiers around her with strange expressions, with knives hidden under their sleeves , Only when you are in a hurry will you call someone."

Li Ye said seriously to the emperor, "If it wasn't for saving you, that person is not me, but this little girl." He pointed to He Qian who was sleeping soundly.

"It wasn't her who called me, and I couldn't find any difference in the expressions of those Xiang soldiers. The group of them lived in Wangjiang Tower before. At this time, they sent people to look around Wangjiang Tower, and maybe they could find physical evidence."

The emperor waved his hand and asked Ji Chunsheng to lead the Wu De Division sergeants to do the same.

Everyone waited for half an hour, and Ji Chunsheng excitedly brought the Wu Desi sergeant to report back. They found the dirty and messy cloth dug up in the woods behind the Wangjiang Tower, and some of them also had uncleaned crossbow bolts and bundles hidden in them. It was too deep, and a few standard sabers could not be taken out in a hurry.

The emperor saw the muddy cloth presented by Wu Desi, as well as the crossbow bolts and sabers inside, and the whole room fell silent. In front of the physical evidence, all the speculations were confirmed.

(End of this chapter)